Sport: Violent Repose

Rarely had Hollywood, which knows something about such things, witnessed
such a spectacle of eye gouging, groin kicking and neck chopping. To a
lavishly mirrored studio on Los Angeles' South La Cienega Boulevard
last week came a pack of TV and film stars to watch an exhibition of
the latest fad in craze-crazy filmland: karate. A more violent cousin
of jujitsu and judo, Japanese-imported karate (pronounced kah-rah-tay)
aims at delivering a fatal or merely maiming blow with hand, finger,
elbow or foot, adopts the defensive philosophy that an attacker
deserves something more memorable...